: Can you change the output file format in pov from a *.bmp to a *.jpg or
: *.gif with out haveign to use another program to do that ???

  Believe me: You don't want that.

  Not in the long run anyways.

  ("Damn!!! 50 hours of rendering and the image looks like crap because of
too low jpeg settings!!!")

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In article <39bdaa56@news.povray.org>, "Thorsten Froehlich" 
<tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> This is by design and it is unlikely POV-Ray will ever support JPEG as
> output format because it is not lossless.

Hmm, isn't there a JPEG-2000 standard which supports lossless 
compression? I remember reading something about it, but I haven't seen 
anything that can read or write them.

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In article <chrishuff-586515.06241212092000@news.povray.org> , Chris Huff 
<chr### [at] maccom>  wrote:

> Hmm, isn't there a JPEG-2000 standard which supports lossless
> compression? I remember reading something about it, but I haven't seen
> anything that can read or write them.

Exactly, libjpeg doesn't support it, and there is no information if it ever
will...


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Warp wrote:

>   Believe me: You don't want that.
>   Not in the long run anyways.
>   ("Damn!!! 50 hours of rendering and the image looks like crap because of
> too low jpeg settings!!!")

To be frank, I've never felt this was a really good reason. After all, there
are already an infinite number of ways this kind of thing can happen (like
this one : launch a 48-hours long batch rendering with "Continue" enabled and
find that nothing happened because small test renders had been already
created...).
Also, JPG could be implemented like some sort of post processing.
post_process{jpeg_output{quality, keep_original}}
JPG output support is certainly not on my priority list, but when doing lots
of test renders (and when one wants to keep the results for comparison or
historical purposes) it would be an interesting feature.

G.

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Gilles Tran wrote:

>Also, JPG could be implemented like some sort of post processing.
>post_process{jpeg_output{quality, keep_original}}
>

You can do that with the Post_Scene_Command.

Ingo

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> Exactly, libjpeg doesn't support it, and there is no information if it ever
> will...

I had heard rumblings also that it might contain non-free IP (ala GIF patented
compression)

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